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A Climate of Fear by Fred Vargas
$32.99 AUD
Category: Crime Fiction & Thrillers
A woman is found murdered in her bathtub, and the murder made to look like a suicide. But a strange symbol found at the crime scene leads the local police to call Commissaire Adamsberg and his team. When the symbol is found near the body of a second disguised suicide, a pattern begins to emerge: both vi ...Show more
An Uncertain Place by Fred Vargas
$32.95 AUD
Category: Crime Fiction & Thrillers | Reading Level: very good
Adamsberg travels to London, where a routine conference draws him into a disturbing investigation. Commissaire Adamsberg leaves Paris for a three-day conference in London. Accompanying him are Estalere, a young sergeant, and Commandant Danglard, who is terrified at the idea of travelling beneath the Ch ...Show more
Have Mercy on Us All by Fred Vargas
$14.95 AUD
Category: Crime Fiction & Thrillers | Series: Commissaire Adamsberg | Reading Level: very good
Each day, in honour of a Parisian tradition, a town crier calls out the local news to all who will listen. Over the course of a few days a number of disturbing messages are slipped in to his box, messages of portentous and malicious intent referring to the Black Death. Strange marks have also appeared o ...Show more
Seeking Whom He May Devour by Fred Vargas
$32.95 AUD
Category: Crime Fiction & Thrillers
Each day, inhabitants of a small community in the French Alps find another of their ewes with its throat cut. When one of the villagers too is killed people begin to wonder: could it be the work of a werewolf? Soon suspicion falls on Massart, one of the villagers, because of his beardlessness (according ...Show more
Seeking Whom He May Devour by Fred Vargas
$23.95 AUD
Category: Crime Fiction & Thrillers | Reading Level: very good
In this frightening and surprising novel, the eccentric, wayward genius of Commissaire Adamsberg is pitted against the deep-rooted mysteries of one Alpine village's history and a very present problem: wolves. Disturbing things have been happening up in the French mountains; more and more sheep are being ...Show more
The Accordionist by Fred Vargas
$32.99 AUD
Category: Crime Fiction & Thrillers
When two Parisian women are shockingly murdered in their homes, the police suspect young accordionist Clement Vauquer, who was seen outside both of the apartments in question. It seems on the surface like an open-and-shut case. But now Clement has disappeared from public view. His likeness has appeared ...Show more
The Accordionist: Three Evangelists Bk 3 by Fred Vargas; Siân Reynolds (Translator)
$19.99 AUD
Category: Crime Fiction & Thrillers | Series: The\Three Evangelists Ser.
SHORTLISTED FOR THE CWA INTERNATIONAL DAGGER 2018 When two Parisian women are murdered in their homes, the police suspect young accordionist Clément Vauquer. As he was seen outside both of the apartments in question, it seems like an open-and-shut case. Desperate for a chance to prove his innocence, C ...Show more
The Chalk Circle Man by Fred Vargas
$19.99 AUD
Category: Fiction | Series: Commissaire Adamsberg Ser.
"Winner of the 2009 CWA International Dagger Award ean-Baptiste Adamsberg is not like other policemen. His methods appear unorthodox in the extreme- he doesn t search for clues; he ignores obvious suspects and arrests people with cast-iron alibis; he appears permanently distracted. In spite of all this ...Show more
The Chalk Circle Man by Fred Vargas
$32.95 AUD
Category: Crime Fiction & Thrillers | Reading Level: very good
Jean-Baptiste Adamsberg is not like other policemen. His methods appear unorthodox in the extreme: he doesn't search for clues; he ignores obvious suspects and arrests people with cast-iron alibis; he appears permanently distracted. In spite of all this his colleagues are forced to admit that he is high ...Show more
The Ghost Riders of Ordebec: A Commissaire Adamsberg Novel by Fred Vargas
$32.95 AUD
Category: Crime Fiction & Thrillers | Series: Commissaire Adamsberg
'People will die,' says the panic-stricken woman outside police headquarters. She has been standing in blazing sunshine for more than an hour, and refuses to speak to anyone besides Commissaire Adamsberg. Her daughter has seen a vision: ghostly horsemen who target the most nefarious characters in Norman ...Show more
The Three Evangelists by Fred Vargas
$32.95 AUD
Category: Crime Fiction & Thrillers | Reading Level: good
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The Three Evangelists by Fred Vargas
$21.95 AUD
Category: Crime Fiction & Thrillers | Series: The\Three Evangelists Ser. | Reading Level: very good
"Sophia Simeonidis, a Greek opera singer, wakes up one morning to discover that a tree has appeared overnight in the garden of her Paris house. Intrigued and unnerved, she turns to her neighbours- Vandoosler, an ex-cop fired from the police for having helped a murderer to escape, and three impecunious h ...Show more